The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Series · 13
books · 1386-2018
Books in series
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Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Romaunt of the Rose, Minor Poems
2003
It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343-c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings—which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class—marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer's work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set—first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835-1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University—is based solely on Chaucer's original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat's informative commentary on many passages. Volume I features a detailed life of Chaucer; a complete list of Chaucer's works; "The Romaunt of the Rose," a translation of a popular and controversial French poem of courtly love typically attributed to Chaucer; and minor poems - "The Book of the Duchesse" - "The Compleynt of Mars" - "The Parlement of Foules" - "A Compleint to His Lady" - "Merciles Beautè" - proverbs of Chaucer - and others.
#1
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Romaunt of the Rose. Minor Poems
2015
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 1
2018
Excerpt from The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Accordingly, from the composition of pieces of the one-sided and unsatisfactory character of those contained in The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer turned to the preparation of his great work, The Canterbury Tales. This gave him the fullest opportunity to display all his powers, and must have constituted the main literary occupation of his later life.
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Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. II
Boethius and Troilus
2003
It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343-c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings—which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class—marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer's work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set—first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835-1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University—is based solely on Chaucer's original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat's informative commentary on many passages. Volume II - "Boethius de Consolatione Philosophie," a translation of a Latin work dating from AD524 and considered a vitally significant influence on Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity - "Troilus and Criseyde," Chaucer's own retelling of the classic love story, regarded by scholars as the poet's best work
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Boethius and Troilus
2015
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#3
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
The House of Fame: the Legend of Good Women, the Treatise on the Astrolabe With an Account of the Sources of the Canterbury Tales (In Seven Volumes)
2008
It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343-c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings—which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class—marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer's work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set—first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835-1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University—is based solely on Chaucer's original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat's informative commentary on many passages. Volume III - "The Hous of Fame," one of Chaucer's earliest works, a poem some scholars consider a parody of Dante's Divine Comedy - "The Legend of Good Women," a dream-vision poem that represents an early major example of iambic pentameter in the English language - "A Treatise on the Astrolabe," the oldest work in English about a scientific instrument
#3
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
The House of Fame. the Legend of Good Women. the Treatise On the Astrolabe. an Account of the Sources of the Canterbury Tales
2015
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.
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#4
Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales/Troilus and Criseyde
1386
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#5
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Notes to the Canterbury Tales in Seven Volumes
2008
It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343–c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings―which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class―marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer’s work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set―first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835–1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University―is based solely on Chaucer’s original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat’s informative commentary on many passages. Volume V features Skeat’s extensive notes on The Canterbury Tales.
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Notes to the Canterbury Tales
2015
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Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. VI
Introduction, Glossary and Indexes
2008
It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343-c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings—which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class—marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer's work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set—first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835-1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University—is based solely on Chaucer's original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat's informative commentary on many passages. Volume VI - Skeat's general introductory to the seven-volume set - a glossarial index to Chaucer's language - an index of proper names - an index of authors quoted or referred to by Chaucer - an index of books referred to in Skeat's notes - a general index to the seven-volume set - and more.
#7
Chaucerian and Other Pieces
1897
"Chaucerian and Other Pieces" from Walter William Skeat. English philologist (1835-1912).
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A Complete Concordance to the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 1
1991
Authors
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury
Author · 1 book
American literary historian and critic
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author · 68 books
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400?) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.
Walter W. Skeat
Author · 10 books
Walter William Skeat, English philologist, educated at King's College School (Wimbledon), Highgate School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in July 1860. The noted palaeographer T. C. Skeat was his grandson. In 1878 he was elected Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. He completed Mitchell Kemble's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels, and did much other work both in Anglo-Saxon and in Gothic, but is perhaps most generally known for his labours in Middle English, and for his standard editions of Chaucer and Langland's Piers Plowman. As he himself generously declared, he was at first mainly guided in the study of Chaucer by Henry Bradshaw, with whom he was to have participated in the edition of Chaucer planned in 1870 by the University of Oxford, having declined in Bradshaw's favour an offer of the editorship made to himself. Bradshaw's perseverance was not equal to his genius, and the scheme came to nothing for the time, but was eventually resumed and carried into effect by Skeat in an edition of six volumes (1894), a supplementary volume of Chaucerian Pieces being published in 1897. He also issued an edition of Chaucer in one volume for general readers, and a separate edition of his Treatise on the Astrolabe, with a learned commentary. His edition of Piers Plowman in three parallel texts was published in 1886; and, besides the Treatise on the Astrolabe, he edited numerous books for the Early English Text Society, including the Bruce of John Barbour, Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, the romances of Havelok the Dane and William of Palerne, and Ælfric's Lives of the Saints (4 vols.). For the Scottish Text Society he edited The Kingis Quair, usually ascribed to James I of Scotland, and he published an edition (2 vols., 1871) of Chatterton, with an investigation of the sources of the obsolete words employed by him. He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.
